A shocking experience

[vernon]

Filled my car with petrol and for the first time it cost £50!

I ought to pedal into work a day or two per week but the money saved in petrol would be partly spent on pies :-)

 

[Night Train]

I'm spending best part of £70 per tank full and it only lasts about 10 days.
I wish I worked closer to home.

 

[upsidedown]

Don't worry the chancellor will be along on Wednesday to come to the aid of the hard pressed motorist. His words, not mine.

 

[Brains]

I broke the £100 tank full at the end of last year.
(vehicle now gone and it's 'only' £70 to fill up the car now)

 

[TVC]

I filled my car up on the 28th Feb, and there is still three quarters of a tank left. Even better I didn't need my lights on cycling into work at 6.30 this morning

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[potsy]

Medium sized diesel and it now costs nearly £70 to fill it, though I can make that last 3 months or more the amount I use it now was filling it up every 4 weeks before I discovered cycling

 

[skids]

I filled my car up on the 28th Feb, and there is still three quarters of a tank left. Even better I didn't need my lights on cycling into work at 6.30 this morning

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I leave for work around the same time in the morning and it is nice not to need much in the way of lights - clocks change at the weekend so need to make sure batteries are charged and ready Monday morning.

On topic - £75 to fill up a Ford Focus! Luckily - under normal circumstances it's once in a month it needs filling. Unfortunately the situation at work means that I'll need to drive from Brizzle to St Albans a couple of times a week for the next few months and the current car mileage allowance will not cover the costs

 

[vernon]

£50 will last me a fortnight but I'm seriously contemplating cycle commuting a couple of days a week. I've just been seriously tempted by a very nice N+1 which could relegate my tourer/hybrid to commuter bike.

 

[TVC]

£50 will last me a fortnight but I'm seriously contemplating cycle commuting a couple of days a week. I've just been seriously tempted by a very nice N+1 which could relegate my tourer/hybrid to commuter bike.

I've mentioned this before, but I did the sums regarding the price of petrol before Christmas and realised that by commuting just three days a week I would recoup the cost of the single speed I had by eye on within a year. This got the purchase past the finance dept (Mrs VC), I'm averaging 4 commutes a week and petrol has gone even higher so I'm very happy. So n+1 remains satisfied until they complete the new Leicester velodrome.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Just over £100 to fill my C8 with Diesel.

 

[Wigsie]

I put £75 in the other day, first time I had put petrol in since the operation and I couldn't help shed a tear as I walked to pay 10% of the value of my care on something that will run out in a few weeks!

 

[Speicher]

I put £75 in the other day, first time I had put petrol in since the operation and I couldn't help shed a tear as I walked to pay 10% of the value of my care on something that will run out in a few weeks!

Ask your carer to work less hours per week then, just how much of a nincompoop are you?

 

[Wigsie]

Ask your carer to work less hours per week then, just how much of a nincompoop are you?

Stop stalking me!

 

[darth vadar]

Don't worry the chancellor will be along on Wednesday to come to the aid of the hard pressed motorist. His words, not mine.

What?

He's gonna knock a huge chunk of tax off the price of a litre of fuel ?

Doubt it.

 

[ColinJ]

It's costing me about £35 a year to keep Shank's Pony on the road!